1. Which bird is the symbol of the RSPB?
2. Which racecourse is on the South Downs between Portsmouth and Brighton?
3. What made Milwaulkee famous?
4. In TV cartoons, who did Pixie and Dixie continually torment?
5. What crime in America have Charles Guiteau and Leon Czolsosz got in common?
6. Minsk is the capital city of which European country?
7. Which poison (and heart drug) is obtained from the foxglove plant?
8. Which cigarettes used to have a picture of ‘Old Joe’ on the packet?
9 When might it be possible to see ‘Bailey’s Beads’?
10 A number of English football grounds have a Kop End with steep terraces.
The word is derived from a word for an isolated hill - in what language?
11 At which film festival is the Golden Bear awarded? (The bear is the city’s symbol)
12 Which Greek philosopher was condemned to death and made to drink hemlock?
13 Which 18th century poem was used by Beethoven in his 9th Symphony?
14 Who were the two stars of the film ‘The Bucket List’? (2-part answer)
15 In which northern Scottish castle were Madonna and Guy Ritchie married?
16 If a German car has the word ‘Kompressor’ on it, what does it mean?
17 What is gneiss ?
18 Who wrote the screenplay for the film ‘Shirley Valentine’?
19 Aided by the now-neglected Rosalind Franklin, what code did Francis Crick and
James Watson decipher?
20 What language does the word ‘yoghurt’ come from?
21. Where is ‘The Honest Toun’ in Scotland?
22. In World War 2, what did airmen call their inflatable life jacket, after a
pneumatic blonde actress?
23. From which particularly odd source is the exclusive Sumatran coffee Kopi
Luwak obtained?
24. In 1995, Mississippi was the last American state to officially abolish what?
25. In 1869, what famous set of information did Dmitri Mendeleev produce?
26. Who was the first non-European to win the Tour de France?
27. In ‘The Simpsons’, who is the school caretaker?
28. How many countries border the Baltic Sea?
29. What is the French drink Calvados made from?
30 Found in front of large country houses, what was a sunken ditch and wall
called? It kept animals from the garden while allowing views beyond it .
31 Who wrote the children’s Christmas-time story of the ‘Tailor of Gloucester’?
32 Which Scottish football team are nicknamed ‘The Bully Wee’?
33 Born in Pittenweem, who was called ‘the 6th Rolling Stone’ and played on many
of their hit records, but was considered too conventional to appear on stage?
34 Which old Scottish poem begins ‘The King sits in Dunfermline toun, drinking the
blude-red wine’?
35 Next to which UK city would you cross the Avon Gorge on the Clifton
Suspension Bridge?
36 If you have two X chromosomes, what are you?
37 In which decade were the books in the Lord of the Rings trilogy first published?
38 Ada Lovelace, probably the world’s first computer programmer, was the
daughter of which famous poet?
39 In olden times, in which months in general were you told to avoid eating
oysters?
40 What was Istanbul called before it was called Constantinople?